Official Portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama The Bathers Portrait of Breonna Taylor
Awards
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2016
Amy Sherald (born August 30, 1973)[1] is an American painter. She works mostly as a portraitist depicting African Americans in everyday settings. Her style is simplified realism, involving staged photographs of her subjects.[2] Since 2012, her work has used grisaille to portray skin tones, a choice she describes as intended to challenge conventions about skin color and race.[3]
In 2016, Sherald became the first woman as well as the first African American ever to win the National Portrait Gallery's Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition with her painting, Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance).[4][5] The next year, she and Kehinde Wiley were selected by former President Barack Obama (Wiley) and former First Lady Michelle Obama (Sherald) to paint their official portraits, becoming the first African Americans ever to receive presidential portrait commissions from the National Portrait Gallery.[6] The portraits were unveiled together in 2018 and have significantly increased attendance at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.[7]
In December 2020, her piece The Bathers (2015) was sold at auction for $4,265,000, nearly 30 times the presale estimate.[8] On November 17, 2021, Welfare Queen (2012), sold for $3.9M in a Phillips New York auction and brought to light the need for more governance around resale royalties for artists.[9]
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^"Amy Sherald Painting Skyrockets to Record-Setting $4.2 Million at Phillips, Works by 4 More Black Artists Set New Benchmarks". December 9, 2020. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
^Finley, Cheryl; Haaften-Schick, Lauren van; Reeder, Christian; Whitaker, Amy (November 22, 2021). "The Recent Sale of Amy Sherald's 'Welfare Queen' Symbolizes the Urgent Need for Resale Royalties and Economic Equity for Artists". Artnet News. Retrieved November 30, 2021.
AmySherald (born August 30, 1973) is an American painter. She works mostly as a portraitist depicting African Americans in everyday settings. Her style...
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community organization in Kingston, Jamaica. Also in 2020, visual artist AmySherald was commissioned to create a portrait of Taylor for the September issue...
the National Portrait Gallery. Kehinde Wiley painted Mr. Obama, while AmySherald painted Mrs. Obama. Different flowers in the background of Barack Obama's...
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery "America's Presidents" exhibition. AmySherald who was simultaneously chosen by Michelle Obama for the First Lady portrait...
African Diaspora. Some Black Women artists the museum has featured include AmySherald, Mickalene Thomas, and Reneé Stout. Each semester, the museum features...
McCardell, fashion designer Joe Shannon, painter, curator and educator AmySherald, painter, portrait artist Anne Truitt, sculptor Diane Tuckman, painter...
the addition of works by Mark Bradford, Isaac Julian, Wangechi Mutu, AmySherald, Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and other notable...
magazine cover project, the other covers were created by the artists AmySherald, Lorna Simpson, and Delphine Diallo. In 2019 Theodore was published in...
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